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JACK KEROUAC

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About the DVD

Director: JOHN ANTONELLI
Format: PAL
Language: ENGLISH
Region: 4
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: PG
DVD Release Date: 02/02/2008
Run Time: 73 mins
Genre(s):
Culture & Society

Special features

  • Motion Menu
  • On The Road - Scroll (see the actual scroll & hear Kerouac's own voice in this excerpt from "On The Road")
  • Clips from the classic Documentaries about Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs
  • Director's Notes & additional clips from Kerouac's appearance on William F. Buckley's "Firing Line"

Synopsis

This is the award winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel "On The Road," took American literature to new levels of creativity and in the process inspired unprecedented social and cultural change. Kerouac's life is examined through fascinating rare documentary footage and revealing interviews with some of Kerouac's most famous contemporaries such as Allan Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Burroughs. "Jack Kerouc: King of the Beats" is both an accurately detailed documentary and a moving drama. The film begins with Kerouac's Catholic boyhood; captures his development as on of the most important modern American authors; and ends with his self destructive demise at the age of 49.
Music by: Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims
JACK KEROUAC